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1. loosles audio compression
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in need a soft with losslees audio compresion (whithout quality loss audio)
i find monkey and flac , wich is the nost popular ?
and work on os2
and for the flac we can get the sorce file at soundforge

i made some test with lame , even at 320kb stereo with classical music , i got a little loss in the high tone, in the rock is not so evident ...

robert

Date: 18 Mar, 2004 on 14:23
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Well, the problem is that either way how you turn on the problem with compression you loose some kind og quality. I mean, even the most hardcore classical music people, claims that the old vinyl has better sound than the CD since of the limit of 16-bit audio. And I can sort of agree, since there is huge difference when 24-bit audio recording has been used for classic music instead of 16-bit recording. Ok, still then the 24-bit is cut down to 16-bit using compression algoritms, but it still sounds much better.
Date: 18 Mar, 2004 on 16:23
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Kim (18 Mar, 2004 16:23):
Ok, still then the 24-bit is cut down to 16-bit using compression algoritms, but it still sounds much better.

No, you can use base conversion, dithering or plain bit rollof but not compression to convert to 16

But anyway as to the original question, lossless codecs only save 50% of the information at best, and therefore are not much used, the difference between 1 cdfull and 2 is not all that great in practice, not when hard disks are this cheap.

sure, vynil still sounds better but at my local record store the only recent album available on vinyl that I am interested in was Kraftwerk's TdFS, funnily enough all the new rock bands that are going full retro in the recording process with old MCI and Studer taprecorders and mixing down to 1/2" are only issueing on CD's while a band that composes and records everything onto 3 laptops is the only one that is available on vinyl, funny, bizzare even.

Date: 21 Mar, 2004 on 15:39
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bobvirago (18 Mar, 2004 14:23):
in need a soft with losslees audio compresion (whithout quality loss audio)
i find monkey and flac , wich is the nost popular ?
and work on os2

I recommend flac for OS/2 users because it is supported seamlessly by Darwin O'Connors multimedia codecs. As to Monkey Audio, I have no idea, if this is supported in OS/2.
Install Darwin O'*Connors codecs from http://www.reamined.on.ca/doconnor/
and, additionally install Chris Wohlgemuth's Multimedia classes from http://www.os2world.com/cdwriting

Date: 22 Mar, 2004 on 19:45
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thank for the info
it is work pretty well
you can convert wav -> in flac or ogg

i made some test and my conclusio the flac format it very non destructtif
i think it work like a zip or rar file format


i convert a 15minutes -> 160meg wav to flac for 79 megs
after i reconvert the flac to wav exactly the same size and tthe same file
i check with comp.exe .....

robert

Date: 24 Mar, 2004 on 01:47
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